Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The
so-called and now infamous Last Waltz was held on Thanksgiving Day 197? at the
Wintergarden in San Francisco, recorded on celluloid for posterity by renown
film director Martin Scorsese, and captured the spirit of the era – the end of
the Sixties, the Age of Aquarius.

While
it began with a spirit of newfound freedom and hope, peace and celebration, it
ended in despair, riots, assassination, war, fear and resentment of authority
and the government that continues today.

Not
just a concert, they actually served dinner, and the performances were
exemplary – with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, …. Ronnie Hawkins,
and Bob Dylan, ….. all getting a piece of the action behind the Band – Levon
Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manual, Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson, who Jersey
Shore tourists and residents knew as Levon & the Hawks when they were the
house band at Tony Marts in Somers Point, NJ in the summer of ’65.

Where
the band went from there sort of mirrors where we went as a society, with ups
and downs, successes and failures, renown and notoriety, disgrace and death, and now, at least for the
survivors, a time to remember and reflect on what was and what might have been.

The
original Last Waltz, as the late Levon Helm recalled in his autobiographical memoir
This Wheels on Fire, was Robbie Robertson’s idea, to play one last big concert
with all their friends at the Wintergarden, where they first performed as The
Band. And Robertson did indeed end his touring days, as he realized the rigors
of the road was taking its toll on him and the band. But the others didn’t
stop, and after awhile, regrouped without Robertson, and the road did take its
toll, first on Richard Manual, who hung himself in a Florida motel bathroom.

Then
Rick Danko, after playing a final farewell performance at the Somers Point Good
Old Days picnic, passed away before his time. Levon Helm however, although
slowed by throat cancer, overcame the disease to play and sing again, often in
a makeshift studio in his Woodstock, New York barn. Levon often came to Somers
Point to perform with his band, that included his daughter, playing at the
Bubba Mac Shack and finally getting a casino headline gig of his own in
Atlantic City. Helm also had a cameo
role as the aging expert sniper in the movie The Shooter before he also passed
away, leaving Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson as the surviving members of The
Band.

And
now Garth is headlining a Last Last Waltz on Saturday after Thanksgiving at The
Trocadero in Philadelphia, a benefit show for Philadelphia school children.

Monday, September 30, 2013

After blowing everybody away at a premier gig at the Country Lakes Pub in Browns Mills, Billy Walton and his hot band will return to the heart of the Jersey Pines on Saturday, October 5 to play their inaugural gig at Charley's Other Brother (1383 Monmouth Rd), a popular brass and glass restaurant that is reportedly under new ownership. [ http://www.charleysotherbrother.com/ (609) 261-1555].

The show last week at the Pub was not previously announced but word quickly spread as the Walton Band is well known in these parts, having previously played at John and Molly's in Mt. Holly and Tara's in Cookstown, so those who had seen Walton perform before were out in force even though most of the hard core live music buffs were at Camp Jam in the Pines.

When people mention "Billy" they are usually referring to Billy Hector, the reigning New Jersey state guitar champion who played Camp Jam on Saturday night, and Hector certainly gets into a zone that few musicians have been known to go. But the other Billy, Billy Walton is two decades younger and with fifteen years on the axe, he also has it down pat, and is on the way up, giving Hector some serious competition for the top spot.

Like Heavyweight Champions of the world, mob bosses and presidents, there is only one on top at a time and he's the one who calls the shots - and right now Billy Hector is the best, at least on a seniority basis, but Billy Walton is inching up close and one day there should probably be a showdown, bringing them together for a real shootout so everyone will know who is best.

For the record, I also think some South Jersey guitarists are in the top rank and are contenders - Danny Eyre is one, and zen master of the strings Lew London is another, and Jack Zwacki, wherever he is, could play with these guys, and perhaps someday there will be a real Battle of the Bands where the lead guitar gunslingers can duel it out in the ultimate reality show competition.

At the Pub, where there is no real stage, Walton and his tight band - William Paris on bass Richie Taz on sax and drummer Johnny D'Angelo were playing on the floor, right in the midst of the crowd, so it was a very intimate experience, maybe too intimate for some.

Starting off with a rousing and extended version of Van Morrison's "Dominio," Billy let it all out right away, and then flicked some foot switches with his black hightop Chucks and said that was just a sort of sound check, and sure enough, after that short break after the first song they took off and didn't stop. While I tried to keep a set list, after the first few songs it was self-evident that it wasn't possible or necessary, and best to just sit back and take it all in.

I hadn't seen them since they played Somers Point some time ago, but now they seem different, and having played together for over two years, are much tighter. Walton, Paris, Taz and Johnny D know each other pretty well, and they don't have to talk about what song they're going to do next, and instead Billy just takes the lead, plays a few notes and then gets into it and the other know how to follow, while we just go along for the ride.

Picking up the guitar when he was fifteen, Walton sat in with the Asbury Park crowd while just a kid, so he's jammed with Bruce, the Shakes, Bon Jovi, Southside and the rest, and was tapped by Southside Johnny to be the Juke's lead guitarist, a prime spot in a top flight band, but Walton kept his own band together and is now concentrating on his own act, which is simply terrific.

Having played the UK a few times a year for the past few years the Billy Walton Band has almost as big a following across the pond as they do in their own backyard, and when you look at their upcoming schedule you see places you know - like Breezes in New Gretna and Tara's in Cookstown or Somers Point and Cape May, but then there's The Assembly Room in Derby, The Kings Arms in Bedfordshire, the Saints Room in Cockermout and Quasimodo in Berlin, some of the same places the Beatles played in their leather jacket days.

When they invade England the Walton Band plays a lot of their original material, as the British fans are a bit more sophisticated when it comes to American rock & roll, and they know who Billy Walton is and they want to hear his original stuff - not his covers. But when they play the Jersey Shore bars or the piney roadhouses they do more popular covers, though always giving it a unique arrangement that affords Billy on Strat and Richie on sax, the opportunity to improvise, or more accurately go ballistic.

And they did that at the Pub, and we now expect them to do it whenever and wherever they play, and so far they have yet to disappoint.

While they didn't play many original tunes at the Pub, their three CDs captures the best of what the Billy Walton Band does, and their most recent CD "Crank It Up!" was recorded at the secret and hidden Scullville Stuidos by Randy Friel, who also plays keys on the album with Arthur Migliazza. Although not as famous as Abby Road or Bearsville, Scullville is sandwiched somewhere between Somers Point, Ocean City and Mays Landing, and only the musicians who come from out of town seem to be able to find it. Among the songs they recorded there are some real good, rockin' tunes, including "Deal with the Devil,' a Crossroads tribute, "The Night the Deal Went Down," "Hot Blues," "Somertime Girl," "Black Jack Dealer," and "Crank It Up!" And I think we should get to hear more of these tunes in their local live shows and I think if requested, they'll oblige.

Billy and the Walton Band will put into the legendary J.C. Dobbs on South Street in Philly on October 9, and play one set for John Faye, and then they'll do the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park on October 11, Sweetwater Casino October 13, Tara's Tavern in Cookstown October 18 and on October 25th they play Breezes in New Gretna (Exit 50 GSP) before embarking on their next European tour, and I think we should all accompany them overseas.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Friday July 5, 2013
- The Jeremiah Hunter Band - Party Dance Band with original Soul Survivors and
Full House.

This week we get a double douse of great, local music
because July 4th falls on a Thursday,

Bob Campanell, a South Jersey native
who earned his stripes in Asbury Park
in its hey days, has been a staple of classic rock music in this area for
decades now. A founding member and front man of the Shakes, with original
E-Street drummer Vinni Lopez, Bob has been playing the special July 4th Somers
Point Beach concert for many years now, and can probably hold down that gig for
as long as he wants it.

I remember seeing the Shakes for the first time in the late
1970s at Mothers, which was an after hours joint just on the other side of the
bridge on the Longport Blvd.,
and interviewing him between sets in a closet, which he had converted into an
off stage dressing room. Covered with sweat from his riveting performance, Bob
pulled some guitar strings from an old tin Beatles lunch box, the kind you took
to grammar school, and was telling me how great the music scene was at Asbury
Park, but how he wanted to expand his fan base.

That was the summer the Shakes’ original tune “Pour It Out,”
was included on the WMMR “Breakout” album, a song that Bob should bring back
and play again, as it still holds up well.

Later that summer I set up a small cassette tape recorder
and captured a set of Bob and the Shakes live, a tape that I still play once in
awhile when I want to flash back to that time and place, and you can hear the
glasses tingling, the background conversations and laughter, and then the band
kicking in and kicking butt.

Like Bruce the Boss, and other Asbury Park veterans, they
occasionally will introduce a song with a little story, told while the bass and
drummer kept up a steady beat, and one night Bob told the story of how the
Shakes got an audition at the legendary nightclub on Bay Avenue, where the sign
above the door read: “Through these doors walk the most beautiful girls in the
world,” but when they played an original song, got the boot from Tony, who
often said to his bands, “Get at a here you bums!” before breaking into “Hit
the Road Jack.”

But Bob Campanell did come back, after playing a few years
as the house band at Merrels in Margate,
which became Gilhooleys.

With a wide repertoire of classic rock and roll songs, a
great guitar and powerful voice, Bob now has a new band, usually including
Danny Eyer on lead guitar.

And besides playing the annual July 4th gig at the SomersPointBeach,
can also be found frequently at the Tuckahoe Inn in Beesleys Point and on
occasional weekends at the Library IV on the Black Horse Pike in Williamstown.
Keep up with Bob’s gigs, as well as Danny Eyer, via Facebook.

Free live music outdoors on the beach two nights in a row
isn’t too much to handle, especially when the regular Friday night beach
concert features another great, local South Jersey band - Jeremiah Hunter, an
upbeat party band that includes some of the guys who were in the Soul
Survivors.

One of them, Kenny Jeremiah, a musical consultant for the
movie, “Eddie and the Cruisers,” has been playing the JerseyShore since Bob Campanell was in
school. I remember them playing high school gyms and breaking in to the pop
charts in the late 1960s with the hit song, “Expressway to Your Heart.” Beep
Beep, “I’ve been trying to get to you for a long time….”

Double dynamite, back to back, classic rock, local fan
favorites, Thursday and Friday nights, July 4th and 5th, on the SomersPointBeach.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Now in its 21st year, the free Somers Point Beach Concert
series has a new primary sponsor - the ShoreMedicalCenter,
and has fostered a new event - the Jersey Gumbo Cookoff and Music Fest, what is
hoped will become as popular a local tradition as Bayfest and the Good Old Days
picnic.

Towards that end this season’s premier Friday night June
14th beach concert act - Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone and his New Orleans All Stars,
will stick around town for a few days and also play the Jersey Gumbo Cook Off
and Music Fest the following afternoon at the Somers Point #1 Fire Company Hall
grounds at 447 Bethel Road.

Besides Sansone, the Music Fest part of the ten hour show
will also feature Grammy winner Terrance Simien and his Zydeco Experience,
former E-Streeter Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez and his band “License Tto Chill,” Mojo
Mozart and the Mardi Gras Swingers and Rosie O’Reilly, the Sweetheart
Songstress of Hammonton.

Nick Regine was the primary promoter of the Friday night
beach concerts, as well as the founder of the Somers Point Jazz Society, and is
personally responsible for bringing such great music to the Point after the end
of the Bay Avenue Rock ‘n Roll era.

The pronounced New Orleans, Louisiana
Bijou and Blues flavor that we’ve tasted the past decade or however, so can be
directly attributed to Carmen Marotta, the former Somers Point Councilman and
son of former nightclub owner Anthony Marotta.

Tony took an old Bay Avenue Ratheskeller and created Tony
Marts, presenting live music, and in its heyday, had six bars, three stages and
continuous live music, including a major recording act headliner and talented
house bands that included Len Carey and the Krackerjacks, Full House and Levon
& the Hawks (aka The Band). Carmen and his brother Tony, Jr. ran the place
in its final years, featuring mainly local cover bands before it was sold and
demolished and a disco built in its place. But many people who were there have
vivid memories of Tony Marts, and that music spirit is still strong.

Len Carey and the Krackerjacks, the first house band, were
protégés of Spike Jones, and had a New Orleans
style of entertaining the crowd, and Spike Jones is even mentioned in one of
the songs by Levon and the Hawks. After the demise of Tony Marts, Carmen and
the late Levon Helm, drummer of the Hawks opened Levon Helm’s All-American Café
in New Orleans, where many of the
city’s renowned musicians often jammed after their own gigs were over. Although
not financially successful, in the two years Carmen ran the place he heard most
of the bands and met many a fine musician, some of whom he brought back to
Somers Point to play the Friday night beach concerts, Good Old Days picnic or
one of the Tony Mart Reunions.

Among them is Johnny Sansone, who made his name in New
Orleans, but is actually a Jersey Guy who plays
harmonica, sax, guitar, and accordion and is annually nominated for a blues
music awards. After leaving Jersey to attend school in Colorado,
Sansone traveled extensively and put down temporary roots in Austin,
Texas, Kansas City,
North Carolina and Chicago
but finally settled down in New Orleans
in 1989 and came into his own. Now Sansone jams with Dr. John, Cyril Neville of
the Neville Bros and Tab Benoit – who played the Bubba Mac Blues Fest in Atlantic
City a few years ago.

Sansone’s latest CD - “The Lord is Waiting and the Devil Is
Too,” follows his “Watermellon Patch”, and 1997 blues album of the year
“Crescent City Moon,” which also won accolades.

Sansone originally played the saxophone but was also drawn
to the harmonica and guitar. Before clicking in Louisiana,
Sansone got recognition in Chicago
playing alongside guitarist Ronnie Earl with a harp style that recalled Sonny
Boy Williamson II and Big and Little Walter, but he is best known for his New
Orleans style.

On Saturday June 15, the day after Sansone kicks off the
Friday night beach concert season, he’ll provide some of the New Orleans sounds
at the Jersey Gumbo Music Fest at Point Fire Company #1, and will be assisted
by Terrance Simien and his Zydeco Experience, an upbeat accordion driven
experience that makes you want to get up and dance, as we know from his
previous Somers Point shows.

Also on the music schedule are Rosie O’Reilly Gazarra, Mojo
Mozart and the Mardi Gras Swingers, and original Springsteen E Street Band
drummer, Vini Lopez and his Key West Caribbean Party Band, “License to Chill,”
who have a laid back Jimmy Buffet style and sound.

Tickets for the whole ten hour show are just $20 and permits
you to come and go and come back again, but there’s no reason to leave, as the Louisiana
theme also includes samplings of a variety of Gumbos prepared by more than 20
local chefs, restaurants and celebrity cooks that you can taste for the price
of admission.

Among the chefs presenting their Gumbo will be Richard
Spurlock, whose menu at the Main Street American Café in Mays Landing
specializes in the New Orleans
recipes and features his chicken and ouille gumbo, Cajun style Jambalaya and
Shrimp Po Boys.

In addition to all the Gumbo you can taste, guests will be allowed to
vote for their “People’s Choice” for the best seafood/vegetarian and the
best meat/poultry Gumbo.

The first annual Jersey Gumbo and Music Fest; a new Somers
Point tradition.

Monday, June 3, 2013

NEWPORT
OICHEY, Fla. (AP) Marshall Lytle, the original bass player for Bill Haley &
His Comets, one of the first bands to take rock ‘n’ roll music mainstream, has
died. He was 79.

Lytle died at his home in New Port Richey, Fla.
On May 25, said his niece, Shayna Golda.

Lytle recorded hits like “Rock Around the Clock” and “Shake,
Rattle and Roll” with Haley in the 1950s. he was known for his percussive bass
style, slapping the strings as he played, and his lifely performances. He would
sometimes take the bass over his head or ride it like a surfboard.

“He’s known as the father of rock bass by some people,” said
Michael Jordan Rush, who published a memoir by Lytle titled “Still Rockin’
Around the Clock” in 2011. “He certainly influenced rock bass more than any
other individual.”

Lytle was born in Old Fort, North Carolina, in September
1933.

A birth defect made it nearly impossible for him to walk as a child. His older
brother would carry him to and from school on his back. It was then that Lytle
developed a love of music.

“He had been a musician from the time he was barely able to
walk,” Golda said.

While Lytle was still a young boy, he had surgery that gave
him the use of his legs,” she said.

In 1951, Lytle, then still a teen, joined Bill Haley’s
Saddlemen. At the time Haley had a radio show in Chester,
Pa., and the manager commented that the
group didn’t look like saddlemen, Rush said.

He suggested they call themselves “the Comets” instead.

Several of the band’s hits are now iconic rock ‘n’ roll
songs. “Rock Around the Clock,” recorded in 1954, is one fo the highest selling
singles of all time. Lytle also played on hits like “See You Later, Alligator.”

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Experience the rich legacy of the Golden Years of rock ‘n
roll at the Jersey Shore at Greate Bay Country Club Friday evening, May
10th when the Tony Mart Allstars will be rockin’ and jammin’ in “The Music
that Made Tony Mart’s Famous”. Join Dr. Bobby Fingers, Bobby
Campanell, Danny Eyer, Howard Isaacson, Jimmy “Old School” Glenn and Rich
Kurtz as they perform the greatest hits of Bill Haley and his Comets,
Conway Twitty, Duane Eddie and Joey D and the Starlighters.

Dance to “Shout”, “Rock Around the Clock” and “Peppermint
Twist”!

Hear the sounds of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels; sing
along to “The Weight” and “I Shall be Released” and feel the power of the
moving tribute to Bob Dylan and The Band known as “Levon and the Hawks” in the
summer of ’65 at Tony Mart’s.

Party with the sensational live sounds of the ‘70’s and
relive the songs of the immortal “Eddie & the Cruisers” from the movie that
was filmed at Tony Mart’s in 1982.

A delicious full dinner buffet will be served by the award
winning chefs at GreateBay at
7pm and the show begins at 8pm. A cash bar will be open the
entire evening. Tickets for the dance party, show and dinner are
only $35 plus $5 gratuity. Reserve your seat or tables of 8 by
sending an email to Tonymarto@aol.com or
calling 609-653-6069. For a full dinner menu and preview of the list
of hit songs to be performed go to www.Tonymart.com.

CLASSIC ROCK SONG LIST RELEASED FOR “THE MUSIC THAT
MADE TONY MART’S FAMOUS” GREATEBAY COUNTRY CLUB

~7-10pmMay
10, 2013

Attached is the recently released list of the famous songs
to be performed by the Tony Mart Allstars at “The Music That Made
Tony Mart’s Famous” on Friday, May 10,
2013.

On Friday, May 17,
2013 the kickoff party for the “Jersey Gumbo Cookoff and Music
Festival” will take place at Chef Richard Spurlock’s Main Street
American Café. Everyone is invited to celebrate the kickoff of
the Jersey Gumbo Fest that takes place June 15, 2013 at the Somers Point
Volunteer Fire Company #1, 447 Bethel Road, Somers Point.

On Friday, May 17th Tony Mart’s will present
a free show featuring “Mojo Mozart and the Mardi Gras Swingers”

with free tastings of Carmen Marotta’s “Jersey
Crab Gumbo” and Chef Richard Spurlock’s signature chicken and
andouille gumbo. The party starts at 6pm
with the live performance from 6:30
to 8:30pm.

Chef Richard Spurlock will feature an a la carte menu
with 2 different kinds of Gumbo served with potato salad Cajun style,
Jambalaya, Shrimp Po Boys and several other Louisiana
specialties. The band will be performing Louisiana,
New Orleans and Mardi Gras
favorites and everyone is welcome to dance and sing along.

Guests are welcome to bring their own beer and wine to
accompany their orders of Chef Richard’sspecialties and more information
will be available at Tonymart.com. Chef Richard Spurlock’s Main
Street American Café is located at 6002 Main
Street in Mays Landing. Call 609-625-5500 for
reserved seats.

This presentation will be a combination of lecture and
performance, explaining how the drummer’s role has been transformed from basic
time keeping (1920-1940s) to eventually moving into a more active and musical
role! Drummers like Gene Krupa, Louis Bellson, Jo Jones, etc. will be discussed
from the early years, and we will then move forward to the Swing era’s Buddy
Rich, modernists Dave Weckl, Jack DeJonette, Jimmy Cobb, and Elvin Jones and
many others.

Drummers Vic Stevens and Harry Himles will discuss and
demonstrate the genesis of jazz drumming throughout these years. To round out
this group, we have added pianist Jon Pruitt and bassist Andy Lalasis.

Our three vocalists for today’s performance will present,
through discussion and performance, some of the wonderful styles and renditions
of some of our favorite jazz vocalists of the past and present, as well as
presenting their own vocal stylings and musical personalities.

Melody, lyrical interpretation, and scatting will be the
mode of today’s performances.

The First “Jersey Gumbo” Cookoff and Music Festival debuts, June 15, 2013, on
the grounds of Somers Point Fire Company #1 on Bethel
Road. Please see the attached Press Release and
Sponsorship Opportunities for Major Top Line and Presenting Sponsorships, VIP
Vendors and Contestants.

Saturday,
June 15, 2013

SOMERS POINT FIRECOMPANY #1

ALL YOU
CAN TASTE!!

SEAFOOD~SAUSAGE~POULTRY

OKRA~VEGETARIAN~Pork~Beef

And
exotic gumbo

PEOPLE’S & CRITICS
CHOICE award

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE RENOWN

AREA
RESTAURANTS & CHEFS!

Live Music 1:00 ‘till

STARRING

Grammy Winner TERRANCE SIMIEN

& THE ZYDECO
EXPERIENCE

Original Springsteen
E-Street Drummer

Grammy Winner Vini
“Mad Dog” Lopez

And his CaribbeanKey
West Band “License to Chill”

Blues Music Award
Winner

Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone

beads! Dancing!! Partying!!
More beads!!!

Beer & wine garden ~full bar with New Orleans
hurricanes,

Key
West margaritas & Caribbean rum
punch

Cajun* creole* Italian & traditional festival foods
available

Vip exclusive tasting time 11am

general admission tasting begins @ 12
NOON

The First “Jersey Gumbo” Cookoff and Music Festival debuts, June 15, 2013, on
the grounds of Somers Point Fire Company #1 on Bethel
Road. Please see the attached Press Release and
Sponsorship Opportunities for Major Top Line and Presenting Sponsorships, VIP
Vendors and Contestants.

The Louisiana Bayou will flow all the way to South Jersey on
June 15, 2013 when Somers Point Fire Company #1 is transformed into a swampy,
steaming collection of Gumbo kettles where you can taste all you want and
experience a world class music festival starring Grammy award winning Terrance
Simien and the Zydeco Experience, popular world music/Louisiana Zydeco
headliner; original Springsteen E Street Band drummer and Grammy winner, Vini
Lopez and his Key West Caribbean Party Band, “License to Chill”; and Blues
Music Award Winner, “Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone” and his Cajun Rock/New Orleans R
& B Band.

More than 20 local
chefs, restaurants and celebrity cooks will be serving up all kinds of Gumbo ~
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, Seafood Gumbo, Jersey Crab Gumbo, Okra Gumbo, Shrimp
Gumbo, Vegetarian Gumbo, Pork and Beef Gumbo
too! And you can taste it all for the
price of admission.

There will be a wide assortment of other foods available for
purchase including famous Formica Brothers Tomato Pies, Canoli, Biscotti,
Italian Pasta dishes from Joe’s Maplewood, Jr’s
Doughnuts and Dogs, real Southern Style Smoked Barbeque and healthy Yogo Frozen
Yogurt Pies! The event will also feature
a beer and wine garden with an assortment of imported and domestic beers,
international wines, mixed drinks, Caribbean Rum Punch, Key West Margaritas, New Orleans Hurricanes and beads, beads, and
more beads!

In addition to all the Gumbo you can taste, guests will be
allowed to vote for their “People’s Choice” for the best seafood/vegetarian and
the best meat/poultry Gumbo. The world
class music festival begins at 1pm with
live music, dancing and partying until 10pm.

VIP
tickets include early entry for “exclusive tasting” at 11am and special VIP
seating and partying areas near the stage.
General Admission starts at 12
noon with tickets priced at only $20. VIP
tickets are $30. Tickets for the event
will go on sale March
1, 2013

A portion of the proceeds from “Jersey Gumbo” will benefit
three Community service organizations, SeashoreGardens,
Access One and the Shirley Mae Breast Cancer Organization. The host sponsor for the event, Somers Point
Volunteer Fire Company #1, will also benefit from the proceeds of the event.

Somers Point Fire Company #1 is located by the ball fields
at 447 Bethel Road in
Somers Point.

For more details, further information and tickets, go to www.Tonymart.com or call Tony Mart Presents
at 609-653-6069 or Ed Blake and Associates at 609-645-3330.

JERSEY GUMBO
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

$5000 Title Sponsorship - 75 Comp VIP
Tickets

Title Sponsor puts it name on the event and appears with the
Title of the event on all signs, posters, flyers, schedules, advertisements,
t-shirts, cups, etc. The Title Sponsor will appear on a large banner
behind the performance stage for live concerts. This Sponsor will
be a part of all promotion and every mention of the event in publicity and
advertising. This Sponsor will have rights of access to all areas with
multiple display areas and choices of activities to best serve it's goals for
participation and promotion of the event. This Sponsor will have the
right of first refusal to hold this Title Sponsorship for 3 years.

$2500 Presenting
Sponsor - 40 Comp VIP
Tickets

The Presenting Sponsor will appear just below "Jersey
Gumbo" on all places as described above.
Presenting Sponsors will have the privilege to put a banner on the stage
and have a major presence with full access to all areas. Presenting
Sponsors will be prominently displayed at the top of all print media as
described above.

$1000 Top Line Sponsor - 20 VIP
Tickets

The Top Line Sponsor will be a major Sponsor whose name and
logos will be displayed prominently with the entertainment schedule in the
middle of all print media as described above. Top Line Sponsors will be
entitled to participate in every way listed above and have prominent display
areas for publicity and sales of their products and brands.

$500 VIP
Sponsor/Vendor 8 VIP
Tickets

This level of Sponsorship allows participation as a
contestant, vendor and prominent named Sponsor with logo.

$300 Participating Sponsor - 2 VIP
Tickets

This level allows a contestant to also be named as a
participating Sponsor. This level does not include sales of any products
other than the Gumbo prepared for the contest.

$150
Individual Contestant - (non-commercial)

Includes 2 General Admission Tickets

All contestants will be permitted to sell Gumbo or take
orders for future delivery, catering, etc.